[governance] Interesting News: Linkedin denies service for

[Rafik Dammak]

hello,

the problem was resolved yesterday for syrian users,
http://jilliancyork.com/2009/04/19/linkedin-doing-the-right-thing/

Rafik


PS meedan is more oriented for western as the aim is to translate arabic
content.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All, I picked this news item up from a US based Arab oriented
> service called Meedan.net but some members on the governance list
> might want to dig a bit deeper into this issue of Internet
> Authoritarianism:
> http://beta.meedan.net/index.php?page=events&post_id=274105
>
> Linkedin denies service for countries under US trade sanctions
>
> Linkedin, the business social networking service, blocked out all
> users from countries under US sanctions claiming that their services
> are subject to export and re-export control laws and regulations. This
> includes the sanctions programs maintained by the Treasury
> Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. According to an email
> from the company’s customer service, linkedin states: “We do not allow
> member accounts or access to our site from Cuba, Iran, North Korea,
> Sudan, or Syria.”
>
> An issue that emerges from the above news is that are the people under
> a governance system not accepted by an influential country that has a
> major stake in the Internet infrastructure allowed to use that
> technology to come out of their grave state of affairs enabled by the
> Internet?
>
> --
>
> Regards.
> --------------------------
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